📘 Frontend / Fullstack Interview Prep
Guide
Language Focus: JavaScript / TypeScript
Role Focus: Frontend or Fullstack Engineering
📌 What to Expect
You can expect a mix of the following rounds:
● Technical Phone Screen (TPS): Live coding and problem-solving using
JavaScript/TypeScript.
● Onsite / Virtual Onsite:
○ Coding Interview (Data structures + algorithms)
○ Frontend System Design (Component/system architecture)
○ UI Implementation (React or Vanilla JS/TS-based challenge)
○ Behavioral / Cross-functional Collaboration (how you work with design,
product, backend)
🧠 Core Concepts to Review
✅ JavaScript / TypeScript Essentials
● Scope, closures, this, prototypes
● Async patterns: Promises, async/await
● ES6+ features (destructuring, spread, optional chaining, etc.)
● Strong typing in TypeScript: generics, interfaces, enums, type guards
✅ Browser & Web API Fundamentals
● DOM manipulation
● Event bubbling/delegation
● HTTP, cookies, localStorage, CORS
● Fetch/Axios & REST API usage
✅ Performance & Optimization
● Lazy loading, bundling, tree shaking
● Debouncing, throttling
● React performance tuning (e.g. memoization, key usage)
✅ Testing
● Unit testing with Jest
● Component testing with React Testing Library
● Familiarity with mocking/stubbing APIs
🧱 System Design (Frontend-Focused)
Prepare to discuss how you would architect or scale a web application.
Common Topics:
● Modular component structure
● State management strategies (Redux, Context, or Zustand, etc.)
● Error handling and loading states
● Accessibility and responsiveness
● SSR vs CSR tradeoffs
👉 Tip: Use real-world examples from your past work!
🧪 Coding Interview Prep
Expect algorithm questions in JS/TS around:
● Arrays, strings, objects, sets/maps
● Recursion
● Sorting/filtering logic
● Simple graph/tree traversal (BFS/DFS)
● Time/space complexity discussions
Recommended Platforms:
● LeetCode
● Frontend Mentor
● CodeSandbox (for UI challenges)
🎯 Sample Problems
● Build a reusable modal or dropdown component
● Debounce an input field with setTimeout
● Create a basic router with URL hash changes
● API call with loading and error handling
● Design a simplified dashboard with a filter/search bar
🗣️ Behavioral + Collaboration
Be ready to discuss:
● How you collaborate with designers and backend engineers
● Feedback loops and iteration processes
● How you handle ambiguity or shifting product priorities
Use the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result) to structure your responses.
✅ Final Tips
● Code clearly: Use meaningful variable names, write testable functions
● Think aloud: Share your reasoning with the interviewer
● Practice in your real dev setup: Get familiar with your coding environment
(CodeSignal, CodePen, etc.)
● Ask clarifying questions before jumping into a solution
